By John Marzulli
New York Daily News.com

…After nearly five months in a hospital room, Tabitha Mullings is scheduled to walk out of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine on prosthetic legs and join her family in the Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York City) apartment she has lived in for 25 years.

Mullings, 32, a single mother of three children, was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital Center on Sept. 15…(She) had been discharged from the emergency room the day before, given painkillers for a kidney stone. She dialed 911 twice in the next 24 hours, but medics did not take her back to the hospital. She developed a sepsis infection, and within two weeks gangrene had destroyed her limbs and also left her blind in her right eye and with severely impaired vision in her left eye.

Her arms and legs had to be amputated below the elbows and knees  as a result of alleged medical malpractice, according to a lawsuit filed against the hospital. Doctors say she has made remarkable progress learning to walk on prosthetic legs, and she has been fitted for prosthetic hands…

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